after 'Cumberland'] Since the latter date, my poetic powers have been, till very lately, in a state of suspended animation. But as, in my very first conception of the tale, I had the whole present to my mind, with the wholeness, no less than the liveliness of a vision; I trust that I shall be able to embody in verse the three parts yet to come, in the course of the present year. It is probable, &c. 1816, 1828, 1829: om. 1834.

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doggrel 1816, 1828, 1829.

[Part I]] Book the First MS. W., S. T. C. (c), S. H.: Part the First 1828, 1829.

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Tu-u-whoo! Tu-u-whoo! MS. W., S. T. C. (c), S. H.

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Sir Leoline the Baron bold
Hath a toothless mastiff old

H. 1816.

Sir Leoline, the Baron rich,
Hath a toothless mastiff which